Listen to the latest episode on superset.com! Episode Summary What does a startup’s board do? Who is on the board? What happens at a quarterly board meeting? What should the board meeting deck look like? How does the conversation change as a company grows from the seed stage to…

Listen to the latest episode on superset.com! Episode Summary When should an entrepreneur raise money? What does the money do? How is a Series A round different from a seed round? How is a Series A today different from 1999? What makes a good VC? Tom and Vivek describe the lessons learned from fundraising at Rapt in 1999…

Announcing Jon Suarez-Davis (jsd) as super{set}’s Chief Commercial Officer: jsd tells us in his own words why he’s joining super{set} — “You’re leaving Big Tech? In this economy?” I’ve fielded some version of that dubious question every day since announcing my departure from Salesforce. I joined Salesforce 6 years ago as part of the Krux acquisition. In my time, I got to work with and learn from some of the best…

Listen to the latest episode on superset.com! Episode Summary What’s a “fuck-it list?” Why does every VC need a time-consuming hobby other than investing? Are there any benefits to in-person collaboration, or should we all move to Zuck’s metaverse? Does more wealth beget more assholery? Tom and Vivek jump on the pod…

Listen to the latest episode on superset.com! Episode Summary Why does the super{set} Studio Model bring on an outside CEO after a company has been founded? How is that CEO different from early product leadership? What are the qualities we look for in CEO talent to level our company up? Tom and Vivek describe what the ideal CEO…

Gal Vered of Checksum explains his rationale for leaving Google to co-found a super{set} company. By Gal Vered, Co-founder of Checksum In early 2022, I faced a critical decision that many Big Tech employees face: should I leave my safe and cozy job and start my own company? My career path wasn’t the most typical. I…

Reflections after a summer as an engineering intern at super{set} Read the full story at superset.com By Payas Hasteer, Student at University of Toronto Do you ever feel like you treat every little life decision — like what internship to pursue — as an optimization problem? Or is that just us undergrads studying computer science? I’m in school right now, and everyone is hyper-focused on what comes after…

Vivek Vaidya’s takeaways from the inaugural super{summit} Read the full story at superset.com By Vivek Vaidya Albert Einstein said, “if you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” As a technology leader, I have always been and continue to be a big proponent of the need for Engineers to learn and get really good at the art…

Listen to the latest episode at superset.com! super{set} is in the business of solving real-world problems, meaning disentangling actual customer problems — not building a product in a vacuum because it looked cool to us. You can’t wait for…